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-rw-r--r-- | activesupport/CHANGELOG | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG index 12692c659c..ce3df8969c 100644 --- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG +++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ *SVN* +* Added a note to the documentation for the Date related Numeric extensions to indicate that they're +approximations and shouldn't be used for critical calculations. [Koz] + * Added Hash#to_xml and Array#to_xml that makes it much easier to produce XML from basic structures [DHH]. Examples: { :name => "David", :street_name => "Paulina", :age => 26, :moved_on => Date.new(2005, 11, 15) }.to_xml diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb index de726281b8..a69a6c5f64 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: module CoreExtensions #:nodoc: module Numeric #:nodoc: - # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years + # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years. + # + # Some of these methods are approximations, Ruby's core + # Date[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html] and + # Time[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/time/rdoc/index.html] should be used for precision + # date and time arithmetic module Time def minutes self * 60 |